S. Gerald Arnold (born November 14, 1940) is a

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lawyer and jurist who served as a judge of the

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, including service as that court's Chief Judge (1992–1998). Arnold graduated from

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and the

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, and practiced law with U.S. Sen. Robert B. Morgan. A Democrat, he served two terms in the

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for Harnett and Lee counties, and was the state campaign manager for gubernatorial candidate Hargrove Bowles in 1972. Arnold was elected to the first of several terms on the Court of Appeals in 1974. President

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nominated Arnold to the

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in 1980, but the U.S. Senate did not act on the nomination before Carter's term expired. He retired from the Court of Appeals in 1998 and went to work for Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. of

, retiring as president of the company in 2010. Later that year, he was appointed by North Carolina Attorney General Roy A. Cooper as interim head of the State Bureau of Investigation crime lab, but after accepting, he abruptly changed his mind and declined the post.Cooper's pick to fill SBI's crime lab post declined job
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